Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Philippines: Local banks – still the preferred choice

The usual complaint about some foreign banks is their arrogance – something that is rarely complained about with our local banks such as Banco de Oro and Rizal Commercial Banking Corp.

Slowing China Growth Saps Fortunes Of Taiwan's Richest Entrepreneurs

Rising competition for lessening demand in mainland China has weighed on many of Taiwan’s largest businesses in the past year

Moody's: Singapore's proposed bail-in regime is credit positive for senior bank creditors

Moody's Investors Service says that Singapore's proposed statutory bail-in regime, applicable only to subordinated creditors and excluding senior unsecured creditors, legacy subordinated debt and deposits, is credit positive for senior bank cre

How China’s race to reserve currency status will rock markets

The inclusion of the Chinese renminbi into the basket of IMF’s reserve currencies will radically transform global markets and developing countries’ central banks policies

US banking giant keeps Philippine growth outlook at 6.1%

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA) has kept its forecast for Philippine economic growth this year despite the disappointing first-quarter performance.

Chinese Financial Investors Further U.K. Expansion

An increasing number of key Chinese acquisitions are now being done with the help of special financial companies that venture as joint investors or initiators of deals in capital and private equity funds.

Singapore tops KPMG's Change Readiness Index

As with previous years, this year's top 10 remain dominated by European countries such as Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

SMU Singapore gets top ranks in FT Global Masters in Finance Rankings 2015

SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business has been ranked 3rd in the world in the Financial Times Global Masters in Finance Post-experience Ranking 2015

Asia Outlook: China clear leader, Indonesia remains a waiting game - says SEB report

Sean Yakota, head of Asia strategy at SEB, the leading Nordic corporate bank, analyses the current Outlook for Asia and shares his top investment ideas:

Super rich buoy retail landscape in Singapore

High-end brands are setting up shop here as mass-market retailers struggle to stay afloat

Investment banking analysts in China are flooding out to private equity

Investment banks in Hong Kong are facing a severe shortage of junior talent as up to 80% second year analysts have left bulge bracket firms for jobs in private equity this year.

Assessing Banking Growth Prospects in the Philippines

For the first quarter of 2015, the Philippines’ banking sector posted a set of highly positive results.

Philippines tops up on local debt

The Philippines government has a relatively high but declining foreign currency exposure which leaves it vulnerable to volatile overseas financial markets.

Myer family company backing start-ups through funds

MFCo chief executive Peter Hodgson, the man who oversees the Myer family’s multi-billion-dollar family office operation, is brutally honest when it comes to his credentials for picking the “disrupters’’ of the future in the world o

Australian inequality rising as top 20% increase wealth and income – report

Top earners are now pulling in five times as much as those at the bottom and the wealthiest have 70 times the assets of the poorest, the Australian Council of Social Service says, as it calls for a stronger social safety net

Research reveals Fiji's banking system remains strong

A recent research has found that Fiji's banking has rivalled the best in the world.

Philippine banks' profits seen to shrink

Returns on assets may improve slightly but would still fall short of 2013's peak.

Six Must-Knows for Wealth Advisors in 2016

Traditional wealth management firms may be lagging behind their upstart rivals in client service, particularly in servicing the digital demands of today’s customers.

Asia’s emerging markets will grow faster than anywhere in 2015, but slower than previous five years as China market cools

Asia’s emerging advertising markets such as China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam will grow faster than anywhere in the world this year, according to data from Zenith Optimedia.

Singapore private property prices could fall another 10% over next 2 years: BNP Paribas

Private property prices in Singapore could fall a further 10 per cent from current levels over the next two years, French bank BNP Paribas said in a research report on Monday.

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